Washing-machine.



F. T. JOHNSON. WASHING 'mcmnt.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1. I9l5- 1,213,202. Patented Jan. 23,1917. y 5

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wasnmemacnmn Specification or Letters Patent.

rammed Jan. 23,1917.

Application flied Tune 11915. semi n. 32,525.

To all whom it may coqwemfi. .4 Be it known th 't I, FRAisois-LT a citizen of; the United StatesyireSidiiigat} Chicago, in the county of 'Cook and'Statef'of Illinois, have invented a certain new""ali' d 'usefulIm rovementin Washin Machi'nes, of'whicht e' follo-wing is alspeci cation.

' My invention relates'to improvements in;

" washingmachines and has for one object to 'provide, a new and improved washing ma.-

chine which shall-be safely and easily oper-j" ated, easily repaired and durable.

It is illustrated more or less diagrammatically in the accompanying V drawings, wherein is shown an endelevation in part section with parts omitted of the tub.

Like parts are indicatedby like letters" throughout.

A is a tub having a corrugated periph eral wall A reinfor ed by a cylindrical band A and'reinforced ends A; Projectingfrom these reinforced ends A are axial stubs A,

journaledin bearings A which project. in

4 'wardly from the fra'mesA, A. Along the upper side of the tub is a-hopp'er like open.

ing' B having inwardly inclined walls B This opening is closed by a removable cover B having inwardly extending flanges B and ,inwardly and outwardly extending flanges '13 adapted to rest on the walls 13. This cover is ape'rtured as at B 'to permit passage of air and the sole function ofthis cover is to permitllsplashing'. It lies in positionat the bottom of the hopper opening without being locked in any way it being held by its own weight at all. times during the operation of the machine.

B is a'baflle bar or cylinder within the tub'.

supported 'at' -eitherend by the side wall and raised slightl'y' above the bottom of. the

tubso as to permitpassage of the water be-- tween it and the corrugated tub. In this is located a discharge pipe B apertured as. at

B"alon its len th. It wil be evi ent that while-I haveshown in my-d-rawin'gs an operative device,- still manychanges might bemade both size,

shape and arrangement of parts without de- .arting from the spirit of my invention, and wish; therefore, that my drawlngs be regarded as in asense;diagrammatic;

It is'understood but this wringer tub is adapted to rotiite or ojscillate,'-and I-have l domison; l l I one direction, an when in the opposite dire :pinge upon the'b'aiflie member; vThe-'-viz'ate the w n of the tub. Thermeinder over this 'baflie" member thus. agitating, V

I door and this tends to shout thejnia i'i member and inwardly inclined wall tion as to insure that all the ffore water.

'the center thereof and the peripheryyt space between them, said box being.

described means for rorig i-t,-. but it is understood.

i-g to form two hoppershaped' chambersliquid contained therein together with the objects in the li uid will be thrown firstin tion: moving peripherally. about the'f-eorr gated tub The contents in the-tub w at least some of it will 'gothrong fora'te'base between the baffie-me changed in directionand compelledclothes and the'liquid njgth Washing. Ateaoh nd-dfibhg t1 tub the'cont'ents are brought 'iip a inwardly inclined dwells surro'un back into the tub and; arrest the mo of the water and objects suspended? Experience shows that this rotary tory movement. in cooperationiwith in such sudden changes of ilire'ctio ter in the-goods bei r'f washed or;

beaten,wh1pped or (fiiven orl-otherwi moved from thegoods and-carriecf ofi y th o is a'boxinterp'osedbetwee 'th ba'fli member and the wall of the tub; hape forated-as indicated so that whiletheliq may pass throu h between the haflle f em and the wall 0 the tub,fstillsol do so.

lclaimz, g 9 "I -1. A washing machine having afsubstan tially cylindrical tub, a cylindricalfh 3 member contained therein, located bet of, and means interposed'between the" oi the tub and the baflle member, "and" loca entirely beneath the baffle member ahdgb tween it and the tub for preventing the p sage of solid materials while perm ttingth passage of liquids through theyapertlirejb' ti'veen the baffle memher and the wall of;

' 2. A cylindrical tub havin a cyliiiidri baflle member therein paralle with itsa a narrow-box located between the baflie m, her and the wall of the tub and closing.

rate, the width of the box being less thediameter of the 'baflie member.

3. A wil-shin moaohine having-i cyli drical tub, a b. liie member therein-arrange 

